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Accounting Terminology Guide
Valuation Allowance - Method of lowering or raising an object's CURRENT VALUE by adjusting its acquisition cost to reflect its market value by use of a CONTRA ACCOUNT.

Variable Rate Loan - Loan whose interest rate changes over its life in relation to the level of an index.

Variance - Deviation or difference between an estimated value and the actual value.

Venture Capital - Investment company whose primary objective is capital growth. New ASSETS invested largely in companies that are developing new ideas, products, or processes.

Vesting - Point at which certain benefits available to an employee are no longer contingent on the employee continuing to work for the employer.
 

   
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